Missing Karaoke Singing - Patch Available!
Motoki:
Then they need to starting asking people for more specifics like their hardware configurations and particularly their sound cards and driver versions for them. I understand they can't fix something they can't reproduce, but they really need to work from the assumption that the problem does exist for some people and work on getting as much info as they can from people who have the problem and start looking for common denominators to try and reproduce it.
Ancient Sim:
It doesn't seem to be a sound card problem. When I (and others with this problem) have checked in the cheat box, the message the two messages that come up (for both the karaoke and the bowling in my case) are "Failed to get sound" and "Failed to initialize sound". I know my sound card is fine, it's only 18 months old, has the latest drivers, and actually produces very good quality sound.
Talking of weird messages in the cheat box, I received a strange one when someone was singing on the karaoke. I don't know if it was the karaoke caused this as other things were going on at the time, but the woman singing didn't finish her song so it may well have been. It went like this: ERROR Production: Want tree 0x6fed93f0 is facing a combinatorial explosion. This is probably due to having a sequence of similar wants that are easy to achieve multiple times. \source\TSWantsSimulator - cpp(3018).
Now, if anyone can make anything of that, I'd love to hear it. I mean, a COMBINATORIAL EXPLOSION? I was expecting my monitor to blow-up any second. Where on earth do they get these strange terms?!
gali:
Thanks, Ancient - just added it to my NL folder for the future...:).
RabidAngel:
Heehee, I didn't know that not hearing the singing was a bug...I was sorely disappointed that I couldn't here the singing though, but i thought that Maxis had just made it so there was music but no singing! Thanks for the link AncientSim..I'll be testing it out promptly.
Motoki:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 September 21, 00:20:38
It doesn't seem to be a sound card problem. When I (and others with this problem) have checked in the cheat box, the message the two messages that come up (for both the karaoke and the bowling in my case) are "Failed to get sound" and "Failed to initialize sound". I know my sound card is fine, it's only 18 months old, has the latest drivers, and actually produces very good quality sound.
It may well be something other than the soundcard, but I don't think soundcard incompatibility necessarily means your soundcard is old or bad or produces poor sound quality. A lot of times these games are made and tested with particular hardware and driversets, and although Maxis' catch phrase for whatever they don't know how to fix seems to be 'upgrade to the latest drivers', I have actually seen cases where newer drivers conflicted with a game because the game was made on an older driver set and the hardware company made some changes in the newer drivers that the game didn't agree with.
At any rate, I hope this gets sorted out one way or another. And if it takes other users to fix it, then I suppose better than nothing. :-\
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